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extent of their power, but beyond a definite amount 
and a prescribed number of years they could not sup- 
port him, by reason of the limited means at their dis- 
posal and the need of exercising due fairness to other 
applicants. For two years, consequently, he had been 
without such pecuniary aid, when his position appeared 
to him so precarious and unsatisfactory, that he re- 
solved to appeal to his relatives for assistance. For a 
man of his retiring and modest disposition such a re- 
solve must have meant many pangs and inward struggles, 
but at about midsummer in the year 1734 he summon- 
ed up enough courage to lay his case before his two 
brothers-in-law, PETER BIUR and JONAS LIUNGBERG, who 
both resided at Umea, the former being a business man 
and the latter a clergyman. The reception he met with 
at their hands was more encouraging than he had dared 
to hope; the wishes he entertained they fully entered 
into and wholly approved of, so that the money and other 
equipment he was in need of they promised to supply. 
At that period it was obligatory for any undergrad- 
uate who was proposing to go abroad for the purposes 
of study, to sit for a theological examination, and pur- 
suant to that ordinance ARTEDI successfully passed the 
test, on July 17 in the same year, as is briefly registered 
in the minutes of the Theological Faculty: "July 17. 
PETRUS ARCTEDI (sic), Student of Medicine, who is about 
to travel abroad, duly examined." That preliminary 
over, it only remained for him to obtain the sanction 
of the Academic Consistory, in whose minutes for July 
31 1734, may be read: -- " 6. Resolved that in behalf 
of PETRUS ARTEDI Angermannus, Student of Medicine, 
an Academic Certificate shall be issued, seeing that he 
has declared his intention to travel abroad, and that 
he has been duly examined in Theology pursuant to 
the ordinance enjoining the same." 
Being thus fitted out with the pecuniary means and 
the academic passport for making his way smooth, he 
embarked in Stockholm, in the month of September 
1734, on a vessel bound for England. 
